October 3, 2016
(The Washington Post) – Japanese biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering and elucidating a key mechanism in our body’s defense system that involves degrading and recycling parts of cells. Known as autophagy, this … Read More
September 6, 2016
(CNN) – The recipient of the world’s first face transplant, Isabelle Dinoire, has died, according to French doctors. A statement released by Amiens Hospital, which performed the ground-breaking procedure in November 2005, said Dinoire died on April 22, 2016 “following … Read More
August 22, 2016
(STAT News) – There are few people in the field of global public health so well-known that you merely need to utter two initials to evoke instant recognition. But to raise in conversation Dr. Donald Ainslee Henderson, the man who … Read More
August 19, 2016
(STAT News) – Don’t let Vera Sharav fool you. A former librarian, she’s diminutive and refined, partial to pearls, classical music, and ballet. But she’s also a streetfighter: one of the most effective and passionate — some would say extreme … Read More
July 18, 2016
(The Globe and Mail) – A pioneer in nursing ethics who developed an influential theory of caring, Sister Simone Roach was credited for establishing the first code of ethics for nurses in Canada and inspiring generations of nurses. In 1980, … Read More
July 11, 2016
(The Washington Post) – Irving Gottesman, a psychologist whose groundbreaking studies of twins in the 1960s helped reveal a genetic link to schizophrenia, a finding that upended the prevailing but deeply flawed view of the disorder as a consequence of … Read More
July 5, 2016
(Washington Post) – Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the memory keeper for victims of Nazi persecution, and a Nobel laureate who used his moral authority to force attention on atrocities around the world, died July 2 at his home in New York. … Read More
June 21, 2016
(STAT News) – A scathing indictment of the ethics of medical research, published 50 years ago today, sparked a firestorm of controversy in the medical community and led to an overhaul of the rules of research involving humans. The fact … Read More
June 13, 2016
(Boston Globe) – Dennis McCullough, a pioneer of the “slow medicine” movement, which advocates palliative care over invasive regimens for older patients suffering from the inevitable and irreversible decline of aging, died Friday in Bar Harbor, Maine. He was 72. … Read More
May 10, 2016
The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (vol. 41, no. 2, 2016) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Dignity, Health, and Membership: Who Counts as One of Us?” by Bryan C. Pilkington “Strange Bedfellows? Common Ground on the Moral Status … Read More
May 9, 2016
(Yahoo!) – Lucy Liu wants everyone to know that there isn’t one right way to become a mother. She has teamed up with Tylenol for the #HowWeFamily campaign, which aims to bring awareness about the fluid concepts of family and motherhood. Her first … Read More
April 27, 2016
(Nature) – The itinerant lifestyle doesn’t seem to have hampered the microbiologist as she has carefully dissected the systems by which bacteria control their genomes. Charpentier is now acknowledged as one of the key inventors of the gene-editing technology known … Read More
April 19, 2016
Bioethicist Wendell Wallach talks about the moral challenges of Artificial Intelligence. http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/science/angels-and-demons-of-a-i/5395/
March 21, 2016
(Toronto Life) – I created an underground assisted death service that offered innovative non-medical methods of dying to Society members. My partner was Evelyn Martens, a retired office worker who’d watched her brother die in agony from bone cancer (she … Read More
March 8, 2016
(STAT News) – Reagan, who died Sunday at age 94, had a greater impact on public health than most Americans might recall. Despite opposition from many Republican Party leaders, Reagan pushed for stem-cell research, established an Alzheimer’s research institute, and, … Read More
March 3, 2016
(UPI) – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied Sherri Shepherd’s appeal in her surrogacy case Tuesday, declaring her the legal mother of an 18-month-old boy who was born to a surrogate. The 48-year-old television personality, who was a co-host on The … Read More
February 17, 2016
(Yale News) – As intelligent machines continue to make their way into all sectors of society, a growing number of scientists, ethicists, policymakers, and business executives are converging on the idea that more thought must be given to underlying issues … Read More
February 17, 2016
(Nature) – Erin O’Shea, a biochemist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will from September this year become the sixth president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in Chevy Chase, Maryland — one of the richest biomedical research organizations … Read More
January 27, 2016
(New York Times) – Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist’s thirst for knowledge with a philosopher’s quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the personal computer and the Internet, died … Read More
January 18, 2016
(Sydney Morning Herald) – Thousands of older people are investigating peaceful methods to end their own lives because they want to control the nature and timing of their death, says controversial euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke. The former doctor said there was … Read More
January 11, 2016
(The Guardian) – For people who want to be proactive about their health there is a lot of information that we can provide. If you are going to have children I think you have a responsibility to know if you … Read More
January 5, 2016
(The Japan Times) – Regenerative medicine is expected to be one of the ultimate treatments to help patients who suffer from intractable diseases and chronic conditions arising in a progressively aging society. With that in mind, The Japan News conducted … Read More
December 29, 2015
(The Guardian) – It took 25 years for the medical authorities to silence euthanasia advocate and former doctor Philip Nitschke. But his withdrawal from media commentary and promotion of voluntary euthanasia was short-lived, lasting just four weeks. Last month, in … Read More
December 17, 2015
(Bloomberg) – Martin Shkreli, the boyish drug company entrepreneur, who rocketed to infamy by jacking up the price of a life-saving pill from $13.50 to $750, was arrested by federal agents at his Manhattan home early Thursday morning on securities … Read More
December 16, 2015
(MIT Technology Review) – A framed letter from Lejeune hangs outside the office of Diana Bianchi, who is arguably America’s best-known neonatal geneticist. She is celebrated because of the role she’s played in introducing noninvasive prenatal testing and documenting its … Read More
